Re: Eagle Board of Review Question
Russ Jones (CSRTJ@TTUHSC.EDU)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:15:09 -0500
At 04:57 PM 6/17/97 -0500, Mike Walton wrote:
<snip>
>I would ask for a statement from the Scoutmaster anyways, so that the
>Scout would have it in his "personal records"....those letters make GREAT
>"recommendation letters" for college!) about the Scout.
In our council, the Scout is never supposed to see, much less keep, the
letters of recommendation received by his Eagle Board. The reason is that
the ministers, teachers, employers, etc. are asked to submit a
"confidential" letter of recommendation. Turning around and giving the
Scout those letters violates that confidentiality; instead, the letters are
destroyed by the board after they have served their purpose.
Also, our council's policy is to strive for a board composed of three
members of the Scout's unit committee and three Scouters from outside the
unit who represent the district. Those representing the district may
actually be registered at the district level, but as often as not they are
unit-level Scouters from other units in the district. Of course, it's not
always possible to have a full six-member board with a 3/3 mix, but we
always have at least three on the board, at least one of whom is from
outside the Scout's unit.
Yours in Scouting,
Russ Jones <csrtj@ttuhsc.edu>
Scoutmaster, Troop 575 & National Jamboree Troop 1636
South Plains Council, Lubbock, Texas
Eagle Scout, class of 1965
"I used to be a fox..." SC-295
"I used to be a staffer..." SC-430, SR-110, SR-206
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